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These are all taken at our home. Mostly in my kitchen window. Except for the brown jug. It sits in the corner of my front porch.

Home...is a song that I absolutely love. Maybe listen to it while you look at my pictures. It makes me smile. It makes me feel good. It makes my toes tap. There will be a little 30 second piece of it waiting to be played after you click the 'read more' link.

"Bloom where you are planted"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Proverb

Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 1 of 3}

I love looking through antique stores. Occasionally buy something, but rarely. (My last purchase in St. Augustine was a totally awesome enameled iron casserole in the most lovely seaglass green...oval with scalloped edges and small darker green flowery decoration around the edge. So lovely. Bonus: when watching Julie and Julia I saw other pieces like it in Julia Child's kitchen! I will take a picture of it someday and post it.)

This trip was a little strange. First shop I stopped at they all but stripped searched me. Then told me my camera was too large. Hmmm. Large. According to them if it was smaller or a phone camera, it would be ok, but they apparently have a fear that people swoop upon there precious store and take pictures of their items with large cameras then, gasp, sell said item on ebay!! HORRORS!! Think about it. I don't understand stupid. Needless to say I looked at them like they grew horns said a few choice words and turned and left after gathering my purse out of lockers provided because God only knows we could never never carry a purse in their antique shop. Can you tell I was a little peeved? Thank goodness at the next antique shop I got a cordial greeting and a sweet smile. Here are the beautiful items I saw...the first is a very old doll buggy. Sorta creepy. Then other times sorta sweet.

"Every child begins the world again...." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry David Thoreau


"What becomes of the broken-hearted? They buy shoes" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Mimi Pond


"Boy, he is great! Jeez, that old fat man. Look at the way he moves: like a dancer... And those fingers, them chubby fingers. That stroke... it's like he's, uh, like he's playin' the violin or somethin'. " ¸.•*´¨`♥ Fast Eddie - The Hustler (1961)



"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music." ¸.•*´¨`♥ William Stafford


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Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 2 of 3}

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ernest Hemingway



"And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Terry Pratchett



"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Robert Bloch




"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Publilius Syrus


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Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 3 of 3}

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Benjamin Franklin



"The examined life is no picnic." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Robert Fulghum




"The table is the only place where one is never bored during the first hour." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)



"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Siegfried Sassoon

It's Spring! {Part 6 of 7}

This was inside the little beach cafe on A1A. D liked the quote on it, so I snapped it with my iPhone.

Mother Mother Ocean...
I Have Heard You call...
¸.•*´¨`♥ Unknown

I found this 'wall painting' inside a little courtyard. It was well worn from the ages, but simply lovely.

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Lao Tzu

A vintage clothing store had this wonderful old wedding gown in the window. It was so pretty.

"After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Douglas William Jerrold

I peeked in an open door and was greeted with this unusual set of stairs.

"Drink up me hearties, yo ho."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Unknown

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It's Spring! {Part 7 of 7}

“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Marilyn Monroe

“Joy is not in things; it is in us”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Richard Wagner

The next two are just things at home. Contrary to the above quote, they do bring joy. I love my seaglass collection. It reminds me of the soft tinkling sound when the ocean washed over all the glittery seaglass. And D gets joy from his shaving mug and brush. So maybe things do bring some joy after all.

“A good lather is half the shave”
¸.•*´¨`♥ William Hone

“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow